Loveridge Avenue pavements

John Fareham and John Abbott are working to secure the resurfacing of Loveridge Avenue pavements.

We appreciate that other matters may be prevalent in local residents’ thoughts, but we think it is not inconsistent with attending to those to look into important but unrelated matters. We have therefore been applying pressure to the officers to ascertain whether the state of these pavements is, in their opinion as in ours, in need of remedial measures and, if so, what steps they propose to take to remedy the matter.  We understand that they are now looking into the matter and, when we know what action they propose to take, we will of course report further on the matter.

Resufacing of Windsor Road pavements

John Fareham and John Abbott report that slurry sealing of Windsor Road pavements is due to start on site at the beginning of February.

Papers for the November meeting of Wyke Area Committee listed all the highway works, whether to pavements or carriageways, recently carried out or due to be carried out in the near future. The Windsor Road works were put into the programme in June and cover the stretch from the junction with County Road North to no. 89 on the odd numbered side and to no. 56 on the even numbered side.  It goes without saying that if we receive any more specific details as to the timing of this work we will of course let you know.

Newland Park street sweeping

John Fareham and John Abbott have secured an undertaking that efforts will be made to ensure Newland Park streets will be swept before student and other parking begins in the morning.

For some time we have been pressurising the officers to accept the obvious – namely, that if street cleansing here is to achieve the best possible results, that cannot be attempted at any time of day when non-resident vehicles belonging to students and others are around.  Far better, we have long contended, to do the job before all those vehicles get here since of course residents park, for the most part, on their own drives. We raised this matter yet again at Wyke Area Committee and finally received, after rather prolonged pressure, and undertaking that the officers would take our views back and arrange for what we wanted to be done.

Resurfacing of Cottingham Road pavements

John Fareham and John Abbott report that slurry sealing of Cottingham Road pavements is due to start on site at the beginning of February.

Papers for the November meeting of Wyke Area Committee listed all the highway works, whether to pavements or carriageways, recently carried out or due to be carried out in the near future. The Cottingham Road works were put into the programme in June and cover the stretch on the Bricknell Ward side of the road from Chanterlands Avenue North to Kenilworth Avenue.  It goes without saying that if we receive any more specific details as to the timing of this work we will of course let you know.

Chanterlands Avenue rail bridge lighting

John Fareham and John Abbott have secured undertakings that the electrical lighting under the Chanterlands Avenue railway bridge will be restored.

We have arranged for the state of the lighting to be investigated after complaints were received from local residents who attended a pioneering and trail blazing local forum we conducted in October.  It has now been discovered that the wiring was disconnected and that it will be necessary to arrange, in consultation of course with Network Rail however long that may take,  for its reconnection.  It goes without saying that any and all matters relating to street lighting are ones which we take very seriously indeed and which we are intent on ensuring that the corporate centre act upon.  Equally, we will remain grateful to any local residents who draw such matters as this to our attention – not all of our frequent visits to the ward are conducted at hours when working street lights are on and malfunctioning ones are not.

Barrington Avenue and other grass verges

John Fareham and John Abbott have arranged for a review to be undertaken of locations where vehicles have been damaging grass verges, as they have been on Barrington Avenue, and for additional rocks to be situated or planting to be undertaken to address the problem.

We understand and appreciate that not all motorists have first class access to convenient parking spaces.  However, chewing up grass verges is not the most orderly of solutions to the problem, and we are therefore working with the officers to ascertain where efforts to prevent the problem from recurring can do the most good. We suspect we know the answer already, and it may well be that you do too, but it will be necessary to conduct the review first and then plan for the allocation of resources to combat the problem.

School playing fields allotments

John Fareham and John Abbott have arranged for a consultation exercise to be carried out into the possibility of setting up further allotments on the former Newland  Avenue Primary School playing fields.

Residents will, in the near future, be receiving a letter from the Council seeking to ascertain whether they would be interested in creating a community allotment site on the old school playing fields. If residents wanted to go ahead with the scheme it would thus become the third phase of our attempt to increase the number of allotments in the ward; some vacant Housing Department land on County Road North and parts of the Bakers Field land behind Huntley Drive have already been put into use on this role and, whilst the supply of available land for this purpose is of course very limited indeed, as an allotment holder myself I want more local residents to have access to an allotment of their own if they want one.